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What is Public Charge?
Public Charge Yuliya Pashkova 4/30/20 Public Charge Yuliya Pashkova 4/30/20

What is Public Charge?

What the public charge rule covers, which benefits count against an applicant, and which do not.

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Do You Qualify for Unemployment Insurance Benefits?
Yuliya Pashkova 4/17/20 Yuliya Pashkova 4/17/20

Do You Qualify for Unemployment Insurance Benefits?

Which immigrants qualified for unemployment benefits, and whether claiming them affected immigration status under the public charge rule.

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H1B Electronic Registration
H1b Visas Yuliya Pashkova 3/2/20 H1b Visas Yuliya Pashkova 3/2/20

H1B Electronic Registration

How the H-1B electronic registration system works — the window, the fee, and what changed from the old paper process.

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Naturalized U.S. Citizen Loses His Citizenship Because of Twenty-Year-Old Conviction
Yuliya Pashkova 12/13/19 Yuliya Pashkova 12/13/19

Naturalized U.S. Citizen Loses His Citizenship Because of Twenty-Year-Old Conviction

A denaturalization case shows how an old, undisclosed conviction can surface decades later — and why full disclosure on the N-400 matters.

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USCIS Implements a New Electronic Registration System for H1b Employers
H1b Visas Yuliya Pashkova 12/6/19 H1b Visas Yuliya Pashkova 12/6/19

USCIS Implements a New Electronic Registration System for H1b Employers

The announcement of the H-1B electronic registration system and what it changed for employers entering the annual lottery.

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New Fee Waiver Requirements for USCIS Applications
Yuliya Pashkova 11/19/19 Yuliya Pashkova 11/19/19

New Fee Waiver Requirements for USCIS Applications

The 2019 changes to USCIS fee waiver eligibility — what stopped qualifying, and what applicants had to show instead.

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Traveling Abroad As a Permanent Resident
Green Cards, Border Yuliya Pashkova 11/12/19 Green Cards, Border Yuliya Pashkova 11/12/19

Traveling Abroad As a Permanent Resident

How long a green card holder can stay abroad, what breaks continuous residence, and when a reentry permit is worth filing.

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P-1A Visa for Professional Video Game Players
P-1 Visas Yuliya Pashkova 11/5/19 P-1 Visas Yuliya Pashkova 11/5/19

P-1A Visa for Professional Video Game Players

How professional esports players qualify for the P-1A athlete visa — the standard, the evidence, and who petitions.

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Can a Student Present in the U.S. on an F-1 Visa Open a Business?
Students Yuliya Pashkova 10/29/19 Students Yuliya Pashkova 10/29/19

Can a Student Present in the U.S. on an F-1 Visa Open a Business?

What F-1 students can and cannot do with a business — ownership versus work, and where the line sits.

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Permanent Residence for Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens
Green Cards Yuliya Pashkova 8/17/19 Green Cards Yuliya Pashkova 8/17/19

Permanent Residence for Immediate Relatives of U.S. Citizens

Who counts as an immediate relative, why the category has no quota, and how the green card process runs for spouses, parents, and children.

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E-2 Visa and Real Estate Investments
Yuliya Pashkova 6/11/19 Yuliya Pashkova 6/11/19

E-2 Visa and Real Estate Investments

Whether real estate investment can support an E-2 treaty investor visa — and why passive ownership usually cannot.

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Conditional Permanent Residency and Extreme Hardship Waiver
Yuliya Pashkova 6/4/19 Yuliya Pashkova 6/4/19

Conditional Permanent Residency and Extreme Hardship Waiver

When a conditional resident cannot file jointly with a spouse — and how the hardship waiver of the joint-filing requirement works.

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Do's and Don'ts of USCIS Marriage Interviews
Yuliya Pashkova 5/28/19 Yuliya Pashkova 5/28/19

Do's and Don'ts of USCIS Marriage Interviews

What officers actually ask at the marriage interview, what they are listening for, and the mistakes that raise flags.

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Immigration Consequences of Marijuana Convictions
Removal Yuliya Pashkova 5/21/19 Removal Yuliya Pashkova 5/21/19

Immigration Consequences of Marijuana Convictions

Why a marijuana matter that seems minor under state law can carry serious immigration consequences — even where it is legal.

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Conditional Permanent Residency and Divorce
Marriage Yuliya Pashkova 5/14/19 Marriage Yuliya Pashkova 5/14/19

Conditional Permanent Residency and Divorce

What happens to a two-year conditional green card when the marriage ends — and how the divorce waiver works.

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What to Expect When You Are Entering the U.S. with a Non-Immigrant Visa
Border Yuliya Pashkova 5/7/19 Border Yuliya Pashkova 5/7/19

What to Expect When You Are Entering the U.S. with a Non-Immigrant Visa

What happens at the port of entry — the questions, the searches, secondary inspection, and your documents’ job at the border.

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Recent Ninth Circuit Court Decision Helps Immigrant Families Stay Together.
Recent Decisions Yuliya Pashkova 11/23/18 Recent Decisions Yuliya Pashkova 11/23/18

Recent Ninth Circuit Court Decision Helps Immigrant Families Stay Together.

A Ninth Circuit decision on the Child Status Protection Act — and what it meant for children aging out of family petitions.

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Alien Admitted As Conditional Permanent Resident Is Not Eligible for 212(h) Waiver
Removal Yuliya Pashkova 11/20/18 Removal Yuliya Pashkova 11/20/18

Alien Admitted As Conditional Permanent Resident Is Not Eligible for 212(h) Waiver

A decision holding conditional residents to the same 212(h) waiver bar as other permanent residents — and what it means in practice.

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What Is Employment Authorization Document and How to Get It
Yuliya Pashkova 11/16/18 Yuliya Pashkova 11/16/18

What Is Employment Authorization Document and How to Get It

What the EAD work permit is, who qualifies, how to apply — and what to do while waiting.

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USCIS Announces Changes to Its InfoPass Appointment System
Yuliya Pashkova 11/6/18 Yuliya Pashkova 11/6/18

USCIS Announces Changes to Its InfoPass Appointment System

The 2018 changes to USCIS’s InfoPass appointment system — and how in-person appointment access was restructured.

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This website is attorney advertising. Prior results do not guarantee a similar outcome. Yuliya Pashkova is an attorney licensed to practice law in all Illinois State Courts, not licensed in California. She is authorized by federal law to represent persons before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Board of Immigration Appeals in all 50 states.

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